Hacking at Leaves is a 2024 Austrian documentary film directed and written by Johannes Grenzfurthner. It explores various themes including the United States' colonial past, Navajo tribal history, and the hacker movement, through the lens of the story of a hackerspace in Durango, Colorado, during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. The film was produced by monochrom.
- Johannes Grenzfurthner as Himself
- Max Grodénchik as Uncle Sam
- Morningstar Angeline as an anonymous anarcho-syndicalist Navajo hacker
- Chase Masterson as two anonymous medical professionals
Interviewees include Ryan Finnigan, Sunny Dooley, Stefan Yazzie, Jello Biafra, Cory Doctorow, Janene Yazzie, Karletta Chief, Erik Davis, Michael J. Epstein, Mitch Altman, Jason Scott, and many others.
Hacking at Leaves was released for free streaming on the Internet Archive on August 29, 2025. Director Johannes Grenzfurthner has said the choice reflects challenges with traditional distribution, his view of an increasingly risk-averse and commodified documentary market, and his support for the Archive as a tool for research and open public access to cultural memory.
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